Logan family (historical)

Warren Logan was born into slavery in Virginia shortly before the American Civil War.

[3] As a young educated man in the period after the Reconstruction era, Logan pushed against the social restraints imposed by white supremacists in the South.

[citation needed] While her parents could not legally marry under the state's racial laws, they had a common-law marriage and her father acknowledged their family of eight children.

He aided Adella financially so that she could attend Atlanta University, an historically black college founded by the American Missionary Association, where she graduated in 1881.

[5] Both the Hunts and Logans considered education the key to the advancement of people of color in society.

[5] She supported women's suffrage, lectured at NAACP conferences, and published articles in its Crisis magazine.

A building that was constructed on Tuskegee's campus in 1931 and served as an auditorium and gymnasium was named Logan Hall, after Warren.